18. David Bowie was offered a knighthood from the Queen in 2003, but turned it down saying, "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."

19. Bowie changed his name from David Robert Jones in order to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of The Monkees.

20. Bowie played the role of Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ.